BIO
Pilar Gleboff (Chile, 1983) is a visual artist based in Buenos Aires. Her practice lies at the intersection of painting, textile work, and drawing, through an ongoing inquiry into silence, memory, and the traces that remain in objects, gestures, and landscape.
Her work emerges from an intimate relationship with matter. She works with pigments, paper, old fabrics, embroidery, and other materials that she understands as carriers of time and experience. Rather than representing narratives, she constructs surfaces where accumulation, absence, and emptiness function as forms of memory.
The textile heritage of her family history, together with the experience of having lived in different countries, runs through a practice that understands territory as both a physical and an emotional space. Landscape, the Andes, personal archives, and essential forms appear in her work stripped of all anecdote, becoming open structures for contemplation.
In 2021, she founded HI CALMA Studio, her artistic production space in Open Door, Buenos Aires Province, where she develops her work in close connection with nature and the slower pace of studio practice. Since 2023, she has participated in Fabiana Barreda’s studio critique program and is currently pursuing a specialization in Art Management and Curatorial Studies at ESEADE. She is also a member of MALBA’s Acquisition Committee.
Her work has been exhibited in Argentina and Chile and is held in private collections in Latin America and Europe.
STATEMENT
I work from what remains.
I am interested in memory when it ceases to be narrative and becomes matter. What time preserves in a piece of fabric, a gesture, a landscape, or a stone. What survives without needing to be named.
I paint, embroider, and draw as one might gather traces. Each material carries a history that precedes my own. My work begins by listening to it.
Nature has taught me another way of understanding time. The persistence of the Andes, the erosion of stone, the rhythm of the seasons, and the fragility of a textile fiber reveal that every transformation happens slowly.
I also work from a sense of inheritance. The crafts, fabrics, and gestures passed down through generations inhabit my practice as a quiet memory that continues to take on new forms.
I do not seek to represent memories. I am interested in constructing spaces for contemplation, where silence has a presence and emptiness can become a form of attention.
I understand each work as a territory where the intimate and the collective meet. A place where matter preserves what words can no longer express.
I hope my work offers a pause: an invitation to look slowly and to recognize the trace that remains even in what seems to disappear.